About the National Corrections Academy

We provide training in leadership, management and specialized corrections topics
for state, local and federal corrections. Training covers a broad range of correctional
disciplines and topics, including leadership, jail and prison programming, offender
reentry, and mental health.
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Examples of Technical Assistance

Assist in the development of offender job training and placement efforts.

About Technical Assistance

Our technical assistance includes onsite guidance, support, consultation, or training
provided by an experienced technical resource provider or NIC staff member who serves
in an advisory capacity and works with agency staff.

About the Library

Corrections-related resources including training plans,
research reports, program evaluations and more. Not all items are online. For access to the full collection
and our live onsite Information Experts, please use our Information Help Desk.

About the Corrections Community

We manage and support a community for corrections professionals to share information,
ask questions, and work together online. This site has public and private forums
that facilitate discussions on correctional topics and to seek answers from fellow
members. We also maintain blogs which are used to share information about NIC activities,
announce opportunities, and solicit feedback from the field. Membership is fast,
free, and open to all.

What We Are Doing

The field of corrections faces many challenges and the National Institute of Corrections
(NIC) coordinates and provides consulting, research, funding and training in an
effort to address key issues. The results of these initiatives provide the field
with valuable information and resources when dealing with these challenges.

About the National Institute of Corrections

We are an agency within the U.S. Department
of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons. The Institute is headed by a Director appointed
by the U.S. Attorney General. A 16-member Advisory Board, also appointed by the
Attorney General, was established by the enabling legislation (Public Law 93-415)
to provide policy direction to the Institute.

Other Information

Related Topics

“As the size and cost of jails and prisons have grown, so too has the awareness that public investment in incarceration has not yielded the expected return on public safety. Today, in the United States, an opportunity exists to reexamine the wisdom of our reliance on institutional corrections—incarceration in prisons or jails—and to reconsider the role of community-based corrections, which encompasses probation, parole, and pretrial supervision … States and counties are moving to shift the burden from institutional to community corrections, sending greater numbers of offenders to supervision agencies with heightened expectations of success but often without the ad¬ditional resources necessary to do the job that is being asked of them … There is considerable variability within and across states in the way community corrections is organized and fi-nanced. Agency responsibilities and accountability also differ” (p. 2). Since this report explains what the current state of and emerging strategies for community corrections, anyone working to strengthen the field or seeking to understand the potential of community corrections to reduce the recidivism of offenders should read this report. Sections cover: what community corrections is; its current state; emerging best practices; current practices that need more research; recent policy changes in community corrections; and moving forward—recommendations to the field.